Social Networking Sites Good For Our Society

According to an article named “Are Social Networking Sites Good for Our Society,” “76% of American adults online use social networking sites such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Pinterest, as of July 2015, up from 26% in 2008.” From the 2016 study, about eighth of the people do not know how to rightfully and or respectfully use social media. Social media has become a huge outlet for a lot of businesses and jobs for people in the world but there is another use of social media that is for personal use and wrong doing. Social media has a lot of pros and cons that people today would never think of. The first reason why social media can be a pro because social media helps people connect with other people. Sometimes people get older,

The first reason why social media can be a con because of the dangers of cyber bullying. Throughout the years, people went from bullying somebody else in front of their face to on the internet. In the era that society is in today, it is hard to find out who is bullying who because people are using fake screen names and making up stories about people that are not true. Cyberbullying is causing more and more teenagers to start feeling depressed, stop eating, and or commit suicide. In this new day in age, teenagers started this new “trend” where they start to expose people that have done sexual things behind closed doors. For example, people go on Instagram, make fake accounts, and post sexual pictures of a person that people sent to somebody else. Since the pictures are on Instagram, a lot of teenagers are going to see it and when that person who was exposed goes to school the next day and is getting laughed at because of the picture that is going around on

A sexual predator is a person seen as obtaining or trying to obtain sexual contact with another person and or is on a “hunt” for a sexual partner. According to Acohido in “Sex predators target children using social media,” “Child predators have "worked their language down to an art on how to approach children who don't think anybody else cares about their problems or wants to spend time with them," he says.” Most sexual predators are adult males that go on social media sites like Facebook and try to “sweet- talk” little girls, that do not know any better, to send the men sexual pictures and or send the men their personal information like where they live. There are some predators that go as far as to going to the little girl’s house and sexually rape the girl. On Facebook today, adult males can put fake information in their bio so that people will never know who the man really is or where he really